Created attachment 436160[details]
Screenshot of the cent glyph as displayed in OpenOffice.
Description of problem:
The character 'cent' (¢) has been modified in Liberation Mono and Liberation Sans without regenerating hints, as has already been discussed in bug 474522.
Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
1.06.0.20100721
How reproducible:
Consistently, as long as bytecode hinting has been turned on.
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Use a version of Freetype with bytecode hinting enabled.
2. Make sure that hinting is set to 'full' in your window manager's appearance preferences.
3. Enter the character ¢ (U+00A2) in an application such as OpenOffice.
4. Set the font to Liberation Sans Italic or Liberation Mono Italic.
Actual results:
The cent sign looks correct.
Expected results:
The cent sign is warped beyond recognition.

I've been playing around with the font, and it's actually even more complicated than it seemed at first. It's not merely a matter of regenerating instructions; that has, in fact, been done. The problem is that FontForge's auto-instructions conflict with the global instructions which were manually coded by Ascender; the glyph looks slightly better removing instructions entirely.
Would it be better to revert to the 1.03 version of the cent glyph (no cross-bar)? Or just leave the glyph unhinted?

The other alternative, of course, is to find a contributor who actually has knowledge of bytecode hinting. I'd fix it myself, except I don't know the slightest thing about TrueType hinting myself.
Anyone here have any knowledge of TrueType instructions who might be able to fix this? (DejaVu contributors, perhaps?)

Package liberation-fonts-1.07.2-1.fc16:
* should fix your issue,
* was pushed to the Fedora 16 testing repository,
* should be available at your local mirror within two days.
Update it with:
# su -c 'yum update --enablerepo=updates-testing liberation-fonts-1.07.2-1.fc16'
as soon as you are able to.
Please go to the following url:
https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2012-1501/liberation-fonts-1.07.2-1.fc16
then log in and leave karma (feedback).